Yeah I don't think its a new Bib, its hard to tell with those small pics on the poster but it looks like the same POTF2 version

Agreed. Of all the figures that needed a resculpt, this one is way up there. Huge disappointment for me. Same goes for the Gamorrean Guard - it's a nice figure, but a new sculpt would have been appreciated. Ah well...

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SilverZ

Thanks for posting that CD-ROM proto. That's certainly not it. I scanned through most of the old Lukes and can't find a match. Any other ideas on where this head came from? I'm having a hard time believing it is new, but it seems to be more likely now. Or perhaps from another aborted figure?

SilverZ

The figure's development timeframe was around the same time as the Imperial Officer and RFT, late in POTJ. We know it went through retooling from the CD-ROM version. On this version, the facial features appear the same as the existing Saga one, only the hair is different.

Could this be an alternate head developed from the existing "battle damaged" sculpt of Saga Bespin Luke, intended for release in a similar way to the Imperial Officer and RFT headswaps, only to not see the light of day until now?

Well, I retract my earlier speculation that it could be the non-handstand Dagobah Luke's head on the "new" Bespin Luke. I've seen some much clearer pics and that hair's even more unkemp than the Saga Luke's.

RE: your news nuggets on the front page about the Reb and Imp symbols.

Hasbro actually addressed this in the Insider #76 Toy Box column.

They said they simplified it for kids by switching the RED to bad guys, like Vader's saber, and the BLUE to good guys like Obi-Wan's/Luke/Anakin's saber.

I don't have it in front of me, but I can type it up later.

In fact, it was pretty amusing, the whole column was a "here's why we did this" to answer collector comments on:- The sandcrawler getting dropped by Target after they reported in in Insider #75- the symbol color switch/swap and why- the slight change to safety text on the vintage repro cards (can't duplicate old card fronts exactly due to changes in safety codes/laws)

and a few other things I can't quite remember off hand... dang work is distracting me